1. We have a new member! His name is Kevin Adickes, and he is swell. He is also a very quick learner!

2. We now have a booking agent! His name is Christian Bernhardt, and he works at The Kork Agency. He is a fantastic guy!

3. Still working on new songs. We're going to be playing the two newest steamers, "An Evening with Rthrtha," and "Mmaj," at all the shows on the upcoming tour!

We hope you enjoy the new site! We'll be adding more content in the weeks to come. We're pretty excited about it and wanted to get it up before we head out on tour!

The cd release show at Emo's was a grand success! Sorry to all the folks that were turned away! We'll be playing a free show at Emo's during SXSW, so hopefully that will quell any frustrations that arose from that little predicament.

'One Ten Hundred Thousand Million' has been doing quite well since it's release! This past week we were #44 on the CMJ charts, and still climbing. Woot! The record is now available through Peek-a-Boo, Insound, and even iTunes!

Alright!

Some exciting April tour news soon!

01/23 - It Hurts To Shoot Lazers From Yer Fingers, But It's Necessary

We're also playing a cd release show at Emo's on Saturday February 5th. It promises to be our most "not-to-miss" show yet. The kind folks at Emo's are allowing us to spend the day dressing the club up with balloons, streamers, lights....the works. Dressing up is highly encouraged. We'll leave it to you to interpret that however you want!

And, we'll be touring again throughout February, new cd's and vinyl in tow. The first half of the shows are with our good friends, Peelander-Z. We hope to see you out there!

FEBRUARY:
5th (Sat) Austin, TX @ Emo's CD RELEASE SHOW w/ Horse+Donkey, AM Syndicate, Bring Back the Guns

11th(Fri) San Antonio, TX @ Wiggle Room w/ Peelander-Z, Animals of the Bible
12th(Sat) Houston, TX @ Rhythm Room w/ Peelander-Z, Animals of the Bible, Evan Dickson and Ceeplus & the House of Bad Knives (between bands)
16th(wed) Nashville, TN @ The Muse w/ Peelander-Z
17th(Thu) Huntsville, AL @ Flying Monkey Arts w/ Peelander-Z
19th(Sat) Athens, GA @ Tasty World w/ Peelander-Z
20th(Sun) Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light w/ Peelander-Z
21st(Mon) Spartanburg, SC @ Ground Zero w/ Peelander-Z
22nd(Tue) Greensboro, NC @ Gate City Noise w/ Peelander-Z
23rd(Wed) Richmond,VA @ Nanci Raygun w/ Peelander-Z
24th(Thu) Baltimore,MD @ Mojo Lounge w/ Peelander-Z
25th(Fri) Philly,PA @ Mill Creek Tavern
26th(Sat) NYC @ Rothko w/ I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
27th(Sun) Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
28th(Mon) Lexington, KY @ The Dame w/ The Microwaves

MARCH:
1st(Tue) Columbus @ High Five
2nd(Wed) Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
3rd(Thu) St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
4th(Fri) Kansas City, MO @ The Brick
5th(Sat) Dallas, TX @ Good Records

ps - Yvonne is really sweet!

01/18 - Loz of Girls Tell About Yor Boyfrend

We shot a video for the song "Music Is Happiness" this past weekend. And, damn, it looks really good. Our friend, Nick Smith (le director), along with cohorts, Wiley, Lucy, Joe, and PJ, did all the work. We just jumped around for a few hours.

There's still a bunch more to be shot, and tons of compositing, but we'll keep you posted!

01/11 - I Know That You Are Hot-To-Trot

AHHH!!! Happy New Year!!!
2004 great, 2005 even better!!

Over the past few weeks we've gotten some great reviews! Check out:

1. Entertainment Weekly (12/24/04 Issue w/ Leo DiCaprio on the front)
2. Venus (Winter Issue w/ Joanna Newsom on the front)
3. Mass Appeal (Issue 31 w/ gangstas on the front)

Woo! CD release show info and tour dates coming in the next few days!!

12/08 - Gigge Hegge vs. ?Maggot

Here's the art for the front and back of our new record 'One Ten Hundred Thousand Million!' You can listen to a couple of tracks from it on the 'Downloads' page.

And, the vinyl.... (being screen printed at Obsolete Industries as you read this by Mando Gonzalez, Billy Bishop and us! Thanks guys!!!)

ps - The video for 'Exit Counselor' is almost, almost done!! We should have it up on the site in the next couple of weeks!!

12/04 - Dear Grandmama, Please looky at interweb. Love, Exxxtra Butter

We just found an amazing review that our remix record, 'Foam Party,' received from the kids at Splendid! Thanks guys!

And, on eBay, someone in Minneapolis is selling the press kit we've been sending out to prospective booking agents! Better act quick! Only $3! Hott!

11/23 - Tour Journal

Below is a journal of our tour last month as well as some pics! Start at the bottom!

More news to come soon!

10/22 - Huntsville, AL @ Flying Monkey Arts

We got to Huntsville just in time to load in and talk with our friend, Margaret, for a bit. Cue was insanely good once again! As was The Counterclockwise. We had a good time playing as well! At the end of the set, Josh announces that we're gonna play one more song, which happens to be the hardest one to play on drums, so Toto punches him in the head. This is usually a sign that it's time for tour to be over. After the show, we left in order to drive a couple of hours to get a hotel. But, we ended up driving straight to Ft. Worth to drop off Erik. Then down to Austin. We got home and all passed out. All in all, best tour yet. The next one (spring? summer?) is gonna be EVN BTTR!!! The End.

Sexy Boy.

Sexxy Boi.

Cue gots big shadows.

The Counterclockwise.

Last song of the tour!! (Josh is about to get hit in the head!)

10/21 - Athens, GA @ Tasty World

We made it to Athens in time to meet up with our good pals, Mary Jessica and Robert, and get the requisite dinner at The Grit. We met up with those fancy Austin kids, Cue, at Tasty World and passed out hugs. They told us some hilarious travel stories as we all loaded in. We took forever to sound check, sorry guys. Cue played an awesome set!! Mary Jessica and the Trapeze Tarts did some fantastic trapeze pieces while we played. We were all watching them and not paying attention to what we were playing!! After the show we all headed to Mary Jessica and Robert's and crashed on their floor.

We got up in the morning and watched a couple of episodes of "Brass Eye" and then had brunch with Mary Jessica and Robert while Cue hit The Grit. After eating, we said our goodbyes, then headed west.

Hey, Mommy, that's Cue!!

Trapeze on the left!

Toto, Mary Jessica, and Robert.

10/20 - Knoxville, TN @ The Pilot Light

We beat on a metal bell sculpture at a park in Chattanooga for a while, then headed out to Knoxville. We met up with Francisco and all had Kepner Melt's at The Tomato Head. Easily the best sandwich ever made, ever. Really.

We headed over to the Pilot Light to load in and finally deliver the Lone Stars to Regina that we'd been promising forever. Playing at the Pilot Light is always awesome, but the show this night was absolutely spectacular. The place was completely packed, all of the other bands were great, and everybody was dancing and clapping. We sold tons and tons of stuff!

After the show we went to our pal Mitch's (from the band Divorce) place and rocked out with a bunch of Knoxville kids on their billions of instruments until the wee hours of the morning.

This guy kept hounding us for autographs.

Yay!

#1 Fan.

Francisco, the righteous dude.

10/19 - Chattanooga, TN @ Lamar's

We headed out early and got an oil change. We stopped in at Moog Headquarters in Asheville, NC and met BOB MOOG!!! (Kind of...our tour guide said "...and that's Bob..." and pointed to the corner, where Bob Moog turned around at his workbench and nodded Hi, and then went back to building whatever maniacal sound device he was working on. We all waved.) A great guy by the name of Stephen Dunnington showed us around the place. We saw the new Etherwave Pro Theremins as well as the Voyager up close. Stephen gave us a demonstration, and our mouths hung open the entire time.

We arrived in Chattanooga just in time to get some great food cooked by our friend Liz Tapp. We then rushed over to Lamar's to load in. This was the first time we'd played in Chattanooga, but the turn out was amazing!! Even our friend, Francisco, from Knoxville came out to see us. The Whole Fantastic World and Gold both laid it down nicely. A bunch of folks threw baloons off the balcony for us and everybody was dancing up a storm. We sold cd's like maniacs!

We also got a great review from The Pulse!

This was so incredibly, mind-blowingly awesome!!

No sleep at night=bad sleep in the van.

Tennessee sunset.

Lil' Miss Tapp.

View of Lamar's from the balcony.

10/18 - Greensboro, NC @ Gate City Noise

We made it to Greensboro pretty early and were able to do some laundry. Gate City Noise was awesome, and a bunch of kids came out. When we got there, we found out that we were #1 on the station 103.1 WUAG. Phosphorescent (who we played in Athens with last fall) and Parker and Lily were both phenomenal! We stayed with our pal Jack, and he showed us his Mr. T cards.

Phosphorescent.

Parker and Lily.

I wasn't lyin'.

10/17 - Arlington, VA @ The Galaxy Hut

Got up, got our stuff from Peelander's space and said bye to Kengo. We got to DC early, and Toto went off to meet up with his girlfriend and her parents. The rest of us hung out at a coffee shop, checked email, and read. The show was fun. We played with a band from Ireland called Waiting Room. They were awesome! We hung around the place for a while after we played with our friend Drew and the guys in Waiting Room. We ended up getting a hotel room a bit outside of town, and I met Damien Jurado in the hallway the next morning. Awesome.

We totally slayed the cup monster.

Waiting Room rocking out.

10/16 - New York, NY @ Rothko (DJ Set)

Toto, Yvonne and I went to the Noguchi Museum around noon. Kengo from Peelander-Z picked us up after that and took us to Williamsburg to do some shopping. Yvonne ended up buying a Brooklyn Overdrive (made by Frantone Electronics) for me for my birthday because the channel select pedal for my amp died in Poughkeepsie. It sounds amazing!

Later on, we headed over to Rothko to do some high class DJing. Some friends, Andreas, James, Teressa, and Heath met up with us there. It was nice to see all of them again! Asobi Seksu played in the upstairs bar and they were great.

Noguchi!

How cute.

Testin' pedals.

10/15 - New York, NY - Day Off

We got up relatively early and went to Manhattan to run some errands. We later ended up wandering around in the rain in Times Square. It was cold, but very nice! Yvonne and I were pooped, so we went back to Rachel's and watched easily the worst movie ever made called Cauldron: Baptism of Blood.

Toto and Erik went to see TV On the Radio and said it was pretty good.

Subway (not the place with the sandwiches).

Note Erik's shirt in the previous set of pictures.

Looks like Batman.

10/14 - New York, NY - Day Off

We drove back to NYC to drop our equipment off in Peelander-Z's practice space, then had some tasty food at a diner around the corner. Erik went off to hang out with some rad peeps (Heath and Jana), and the rest of us headed over to our friend Rachel's (from Palomar) place to drop off our sleeping bags. Later, on the subway, we saw Allison and Claire from the crazy Houston dance troup Ovarian Ovation. We then met up with Peelander-Z at a Japanese restaurant in Manhattan. This was by far, the best eating experience of the tour! They ordered what seemed like everything on the menu, and it was all amazing!! None of us have ever eaten so much food in our lives.

After dinner, Erik went "home" to rest, and the rest of us headed over to see IQU play. Their show was great despite some technical difficulties. After that we went to Arlene's Grocery to meet up with Rachel and check out Palaxy Tracks. They were great as usual! At around 3am we headed over to some bar for an after hours party, then back to Rachel's place.

Kotaro ordering the food.

Erik chewin'.

Sooooooo gooooooooood!!!

Lots of food.

Yumi and the cotton candy machine.

Toto enjoying the fruits of her labor.

What?

Brandon from Palaxy Tracks.

10/13 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Mug (Vassar College)

We spent most of the day hanging around Brooklyn, playing frisbee with our friend Phillip. Only after he cooked us some fantastic omelettes!

Mister Phillip Niemeyer (of Black Lipstick fame)

This is Yvonne playing a game called "Fris-bee"

10/12 - New York City, NY @ Siberia Bar

We played at Siberia Bar with Peelander-Z and Texans, DARYL. The show went really well and lots of folks showed up. We got to see some of our Austin friends, Phillip, Beth (from Black Lipstick) and Teressa (from Kino Eye). And, Phillip and Beth were kind enough to let us crash at their house.

Peelander-Z!!

DARYL!!

10/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Silk City

The drive to Philly was absolutely beautiful. Wow, the leaves actually change colors in the north!

We got to the club, Silk City, and got some free grilled cheese sandwiches at the attached restaurant. Everybody played a great set, and we got to once again play with our friend, Andrew. This time he did this kind of metal/electronic solo stuff under the moniker Battle Ready. Fantastic!

Andrew.

We went to the Mutter Museum and met Dr. C. Everett Koop!!!! Also at the museum, we saw Chang and Eng's liver and a bunch of mutated skeletons, none of whom were as friendly as C. Everett.

10/10 - Columbus, OH @ High Five

We got to see my cousin, Billy, in Enon, OH and enjoy some fresh apple dumplings courtesy of Granny. We got to Columbus in enough time to walk around and get some great pizza at the High Five. We got a great review in the Columbus Alive.

We played last, and our show went really well. Two girls, Megan and Erin, drove 3 hours to see us!! That was pretty awesome. They danced the whole show and made it incredibly fun for all of us. After the show we headed over to Todd (the promoter) and his wife Sharon's house. They gave us comfortable beds and some great coffee and pancakes in the morning. Awesome!!

Megan and Erin, and us kids.

10/09 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean

The show at the Subterranean was awesome. The sound and sound guy were totally fantastic! We were first, but seemed to have a pretty good crowd. No doubt because of the other bands on the bill; Sybris, Life at Sea, and Giraffe.

We stayed with Nick from Mission Label (the folks that put us on their comp!).

Another game of Made Up Scrabble.

From the balcony of the Subterranean.

The moose runs wild in the wind.

Self explanatory.

The view of Chicago from the roof of Nick's apartment building.

10/08 - St. Louis, MO @ The Rocket Bar

The show at the Rocket Bar was fun. So Many Dynamos rocked the mommies, Doris Henson rocked the daddies, Roma 79 rocked the kiddies, and we rocked the puppies. The So Many Dynamos kids let us stay at their place.

Blix is a game where you smash a bottle on the ground and pick up the pieces. Blixd is how you get while playing Blix, and Renblixd is when you play it again. Rthrtha is the giant gay bat that fights Godzilla. Joda was a character in Estar Guars.

Toto stuffing the animals.

10/06-07 - Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves & Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory

The show in OKC was also a blast! We got to see our pals, Josh, Abby, and Ben. And the kids were super friendly.

Saw the most lights ever on a truck on the way to OKC.

Modulator (pictured), Holograms, and Roman Numerals were all rad.

Our friends and hosts, Josh and Abby.

10/06 - The Elephants that Talk and Fly and Stuff

Our tour starts today!!!! We're so dern excited!